Ripple Effect

I decided to break out my old pencil rendering skills and see what I could come up with for this new card. When I first started out making art I only drew with graphite for years. I swore back then that I was happy drawing super realism in black and white and didn't have the desire to dabble in color or paint... I find that very funny now. It turns out that I love painting more than anything, and drawing in pencil is more tedious than I remember, but still enjoyable. I'm glad that I can combine my pencil work with my digital painting like above. So I used color pencil (who needs erasers?), scanned and combined the two drawings in photoshop, then digitally colored.

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Rain

©Sam Nagel

I love the red. It was a new challenge to paint cloudy mist. My past attempt to paint clouds was in second year of art school, and that painting failed miserably. I haven't tried again in years (or had to). But I thought it has been enough time and I've probably improved a ton since then, so I gave clouds another chance. Much better!

for Wendy Limber's "Intimacy Without Responsibility" card deck